Educating unaccompanied immigrant children in Chicago, Illinois: A case study

Maria Vidal de Haymes, Adam Avrushin and Deidra Coleman

Children and Youth Services Review, 2018, vol. 92, issue C, 77-88

Abstract: Very little is known about how unaccompanied immigrant children (UIC) are faring and integrating into US communities, or about the services they utilize and their outstanding needs. This is true for both UICs that have been released from Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) detention centers to live with sponsors and non-apprehended unaccompanied immigrant youth. From October 2014 to August 2017, 1818 apprehended UICs detained in ORR facilities have been released to live with their sponsors/families in Illinois, of those, 866 were released to Cook County, the county housing the city of Chicago. The number of non-apprehended unaccompanied immigrant children that reside in Illinois, the state with the 6th largest concentration of undocumented residents, is not known.

Keywords: Immigrants; Children; Education; Unaccompanied children; Mental health; Social services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.03.046

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